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The Military is Poisoning America’s Groundwater

Pat Elder World Beyond War
military base firefighting near grass and trees
The military allows the poisons to leach into the groundwater to contaminate neighboring communities which use groundwater in their wells and municipal water systems.

Inequality: A Broad Middle Class Requires Empowering Workers

Robert Borosage Campaign for America's Future
Trying to explain rising inequality without talking about unions is like explaining why the train is late – the tracks are worn, the weather is bad – without noting that one of its engines has been sabotaged.

The RAD-ical Shifts to Public Housing

Rachel M. Cohen The American Prospect
RAD is a second cousin to everything from privatized highways to the Affordable Care Act, which keeps the public provision and modest expansion of health insurance mostly private. It could be more cost-effective to just appropriate more direct funds to the program and keep it in the public sector, but Congress is not about to do so.